Graphical score for Gyorgy Ligeti’s electronic composition, ‘Artikulation’. The score was composed in 1958. The graphical score was produced by Rainer Wehinger twelve years after the original music was recorded. A video of the score accompanying the music is available on dailymotion.
[Radassemmbly via information aesthetics]

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This is Xenakis’ graph of the opening glissandi in Metastasis (composed in 1953-4 for orchestra). A high resolution version of this image can be found at Xenakis: His Life in Music along with an audio exerpt. Xenakis’ scoring style used mathematical techniques to add to the grammars of formal composition. The graphic, pianoroll interface will be familiar to anyone who has used computer sequencing software.

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